James Beard Book, Broadcast and Journalism 2014 Award Winners

The 2014 James Beard Awards, held at Gotham Hall in New York City, have been going on since Friday and continue through tonight, when the chef and restaurant awards will be announced. So who won the prestigious book, broadcast and journalism awards this year? Congratulations go to British chef Heston Blumental, whose book Historic Heston won Cookbook of the Year. 

Diana Kennedy was inducted into the Cookbook Hall of Fame. Anthony Bourdain won for The Mind of a Chef on PBS. Public radio and television took home quite a few honors, as did the publication Lucky Peach, which won in multiple categories. Ina Garten won Outstanding Host for her Barefoot Contessa on the Food Network, and GQ's Alan Richman won this year's Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award.

On the home front, L.A.-based cookbook writer Martha Rose Shulman and Jacquy Pfeiffer won in the Baking category with their book, The Art of French Pastry. And the Weekly's own Besha Rodell won for her Punch essay "40 Ounces to Freedom." Read on for the complete list of awards, and check back later to see who won this year's chef and restaurants awards. Then maybe go out to dinner.

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Radio Show/Audio Webcast


This American Life

Host: Ben Calhoun

Area: Public Radio

Producer: Ben Calhoun
Special/Documentary

Eating Alabama

Network: PBS

Producers: Andrew Beck Grace and Bartley Powers
Television Program, in Studio or Fixed Location

Martha Stewart's Cooking School

Host: Martha Stewart

Network: PBS

Producers: Greta Anthony, Christina Deyo, Michael Morrison, Olivia Schneider, Martha Stewart, Calia Van Dyk, and Lisa Wagner
Television Program, on Location

The Mind of a Chef

Host: Anthony Bourdain

Network: PBS

Producers: Jared Andrukanis, Anthony Bourdain, Joe Caterini, Chris Collins, Michael Steed, and Lydia Tenaglia
Television Segment

Friday Arts, Art of Food

Network: WHYY-TV

Producer: Monica Rogozinski
Video Webcast, Fixed Location and/or Instructional

Thirsty For...

youtube.com/tastemade

Producers: Jay Holzer and Eric Slatkin
Video Webcast, on Location

The Perennial Plate: Europe and South Asia

theperennialplate.com

Hosts: Mirra Fine and Daniel Klein

Producers: Mirra Fine and Daniel Klein
Outstanding Personality/Host

Host: Ina Garten

Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics

Network: Food Network
2014 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards
Cooking, Recipes, or Instruction

Andy Ricker

Saveur

"The Star of Siam"
Food and Culture

John Birdsall

Lucky Peach

"America, Your Food Is So Gay"
Food and Travel

Nick Paumgarten

Bon Appétit

"Lunch at 8,500 Ft."
Food Coverage in a General-Interest Publication

The Wall Street Journal

"Off Duty" Section

Beth Kracklauer
Food Politics, Policy, and the Environment

Eli Saslow

The Washington Post

"Food Stamps"
Food-Related Columns

Adam Sachs

Bon Appétit

The Obsessivore
Group Food Blog

First We Feast
Health and Well-Being

Rachael Moeller Gorman

EatingWell

"The Whole-Grain, Reduced-Fat, Zero-Calorie, High-Fiber, Lightly Sweetened Truth About Food Labels"
Humor


Lisa Hanawalt

Lucky Peach

"On the Trail with Wylie"

Individual Food Blog

Homesick Texan

Lisa Fain

Personal Essay

Fuchsia Dunlop

Lucky Peach

"Dick Soup"

Profile

Francis Lam

Lucky Peach

"A Day on Long Island with Alex Lee"

Visual Storytelling

James Maikowski, Patricia Sanchez, Stephen Scoble, and Fredrika Stjärne

Food & Wine

"Best New Chef All-Stars," "Oysters & Gumbo: A Chef's New Orleans Party," "Vegetables Now"
Wine, Spirits, and Other Beverages

Besha Rodell

Punch

"40 Ounces to Freedom"
Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award

Alan Richman

GQ

"Alan Richman Walks Into a Jewish Deli...," "The Elm: Is Brooklyn Ready for Sophisticated Dining?," "ZZ's, the Most Expensive 58 Minutes in New York Dining"
MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Lucky Peach

"I Placed a Jar in Tennessee"
2014 James Beard Foundation Book Awards

Cookbook of the Year

Historic Heston

Heston Blumenthal

(Bloomsbury USA)

Cookbook Hall of Fame

Diana Kennedy

American Cooking 


The New Midwestern Table: 200 Heartland Recipes

Amy Thielen

(Random House)
Baking and Dessert

The Art of French Pastry

Jacquy Pfeiffer with Martha Rose Shulman

(Knopf)
Beverage

The Cocktail Lab: Unraveling the Mysteries of Flavor and Aroma in Drink, with Recipes

Tony Conigliaro

(Ten Speed Press)
Cooking from a Professional Point of View

Historic Heston

Heston Blumenthal

(Bloomsbury USA)
Focus on Health

Gluten-Free Girl Every Day

Shauna James Ahern with Daniel Ahern

(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
General Cooking

Smoke: New Firewood Cooking

Tim Byres

(Rizzoli New York)
International

Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking

Fuchsia Dunlop

(W. W. Norton & Company)
Photography

René Redzepi: A Work in Progress

Photographers: Ali Kurshat Altinsoy, Ditte Isager, René Redzepi, Lars Williams, and the Noma Team

(Phaidon Press)
Reference and Scholarship

Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine One Plate at a Time

Adrian Miller

(The University of North Carolina Press)
Single Subject

Culinary Birds: The Ultimate Poultry Cookbook

John Ash with James O. Fraioli

(Running Press)
Vegetable Focused and Vegetarian

Vegetable Literacy

Deborah Madison

(Ten Speed Press)
Writing and Literature

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Michael Moss

(Random House)


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